Week of April 26-May 17, 1999

No papers due to catch up, teaching, and generally being behind schedule.

Week of April 19, 1999

Hara, K., Tydeman, P., and Kirschner, M. (1980) A cytoplasmic clock with the same period as the division cycle in Xenopus eggs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. 77: (1) 462-466.

Week of April 12, 1999

Field, C., Li, R., and Oegema, K. (1999) Cytokinesis in eukaryotes: a mechanistic comparison. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 11:68-80.

Week of April 5, 1999

Giansanti, M.G., Bonaccorsi, S., Williams, B., Williams, E.V., Santolamazza, C., Goldberg, M.L., and Gatti, M. (1998) Cooperative interactions between the central spindle and the contractile ring during Drosophila cytokinesis. Genes and Development. 12(3): 396-410.

Weeks of March 22-29, 1999

Beams, H.W. and Evans, T.C. (1940) Some effects of colchicine upon the first cleavage in Arbacia punculata. The Biological Bulletin. 79:188-198.

Week of March 15, 1999

Drazen Raucher and Michael P. Sheetz. (1999) Membrane Expansion Increases Endocytosis Rate During Mitosis. Journal of Cell Biology. 144: 497-506.

Week of March 8, 1999

David M. Raskin and Piet A. J. de Boer. (1997) The MinE Ring: An FtsZ-Independent Cell Structure Required for Selection of the Correct Division Site in E. coli. Cell. 91: 682-694.

Week of March 1, 1999

Igor Weber, Günther Gerisch, Christina Heizer, John Murphy, Kim Badelt, Alexander Stock, Jean-Marc Schwartz, and Jan Faix (1999) Cytokinesis mediated through the recruitment of cortexillins into the cleavage furrow. EMBO Journal. 18: 586-594.

Weeks of February 15-22, 1999

Richard R. Adams, Alvaro A.M. Tavares, Adi Salzberg, Hugo J. Bellen, and David M. Glover (1998) Pavarotti encodes a kinesin-like protein required to organize the central spindle and contractile ring for cytokinesis. Genes and Development. Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 1483-1494.

Week of February 8, 1999

Matthew S. Savoian, William C. Earnshaw, Alexey Khodjakov, and Conly L. Rieder (1999) Cleavage Furrows Formed between Centrosomes Lacking an Intervening Spindle and Chromosomes Contain Microtubule Bundles, INCENP, and CHO1 but Not CENP-E. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 10: 297-311.

Week of February 1, 1999

Christopher B. O'Connell, Sally P. Wheatley, Sohail Ahmed, and Yu-li Wang (1999) The Small GTP-binding Protein Rho Regulates Cortical Activities in Cultured Cells during Division  Journal of Cell Biology. 144: 305-313.

Weeks of January 18-25th, 1999

Mark S. Longtine, Hanna Fares, and John R. Pringle. (1998)  Role of the Yeast Gin4p Protein Kinase in Septin Assembly and the Relationship between Septin Assembly and Septin Function.  Journal of Cell Biology. 143: 719-736.

Jennifer A. Frazier, Mei Lie Wong, Mark S. Longtine, John R. Pringle, Matthias Mann, Timothy J. Mitchison, and Christine Field  (1998) Polymerization of Purified Yeast Septins: Evidence That Organized Filament Arrays May Not Be Required for Septin Function  Journal of Cell Biology. 143: 737-749.

Christopher W. Carroll, Roger Altman, David Schieltz, John R. Yates, III, and Douglas Kellogg (1998) The Septins Are Required for the Mitosis-specific Activation of the Gin4 Kinase. Journal of Cell Biology. 143: 709-717.

Week of January 11, 1999

Denegre, J.M., Valles, J.M., Lin, K., Jordan, W.B., and Mowry, K.L. (1998) Cleavage planes in frog eggs are altered by strong magnetic fields.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 95: 14729-14732.

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